Re: Why Wine is like playing the guitar

[Roland]

At 01:14 AM 3/20/02 -0800, Steven Edwards wrote:
> > "this software is
> > designed to run the following:
> >       MS Word
> >       Lotus Notes
> >       Quicken"
>
> You really have two tasks at hand.
> - Running some windows apps
> - Moving People off of Windows Apps

I don't see number 2 as a task. Our goal is to just implement task 1. Task 
2 has nothing to do with WINE primarily. There are some Windows Apps that 
have no Linux equivalent, think of all the games...
> - Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.)
> - Internet Explorer.
> - AOL
> - TuboTax
> - Quicken/QuickBooks
> - Lotus Notes
> - All of the P2P software
> - Juno
> - Act
> - The Palm Desktop

Plus tons of games

Roland